Please can everyone list the best roses for their noses, with scent that wafts on the air some distance from the plant. The best I have encountered are: White Rosa rugosa, Rose buff beauty, and Rosa moschata.
For me, one of the better commercially-available roses that fits this might be PERFUME BREEZE/BRISE PARFUM (āBariseā). Its scent is very sweet and light in quality but it can travel, and the plant is healthy. Rosa moschata and Rosa brunonii can certainly waft the scent that is produced from their stamens in the morning.
I had a once-blooming rambler called āGruss an Zabernā with a strong, killer scent (though not āspiceā as stated at HelpMeFind.com) that really traveled on the air, but lost it to Rose Rosette Disease and the emergency cuttings I took didnāt survive. I later found a sprout growing near its former location and am hoping that it might somehow be an escapee or a seedling, but havenāt seen flowers yet, and might have to wait another year for any to form. It would be rather difficult to obtain again otherwise (I think that Freedom Gardens might have it for at least custom ordering).
Stefan
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Cremoisi superiour is the only one in my garden that is super noticeable
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I can vouch for Barniās āPerfume Breezeā having a very strong fragrance. When the weather and winds are right, I can smell the plant in the front yard from the back yard. Not my favorite rose scent ā more like wild synstyllae than the more refined old rose fragrances, and perhaps I think of lilac when I smell it because, like lilacs, I might have a mild allergic reaction to P.Bā¦ (I wonder if āfragrant driftā and pollen to carry the volatile odors go hand-in-hand?)
The power of the fragrance might be accounted for by the shear quantity of blossoms on the beast.
Peach Drift has surprised me for its fragrance, mostly due to its placement along the path to my front door, and because I would not have thought of it in that context.
Interestingly, Cramoisi Superieur has no detectable fragrance in my yard.
Those regarded for best fragrance often require me to completely insert my nose to fully appreciate their aromas.
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Itās surprising how seemingly low scented roses can āwaftā under ideal conditions. Basyeās Amphidiploid 86-3, the Banksiae X Laevigata hybrid, has little scent in each bloom, but when there are hundreds of them, all open at once, in warm humid air, you can smell it all over the yard. Often, the wafting depends more on the prevailing weather conditions than the individual rose.
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I can smell my Rosa banksiae āLuteaā over quite a large distance when itās in bloom, but the fragrance to me is sort of likeā¦carrots.
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Interesting, isnāt it? I canāt smell anything from double Banksiaes (either color), no āviolet scentā, nothing. I get a little smell from Lutescens, but drying anthers and stamen in the house results in the most intense clove scent. When the temp and humidity are right, it will drive you out of the house! There is a bit of the clove scent from drying Purezza and Basyeās 86-3 drying parts, also. Drying anthers and stamen from Autumn Damask, Gloire de Dijon, De la Grifferaie will give you asthmatic symptoms!
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Thatās really interestingāI should try that with āPurezzaā to see if I experience anything similar (I havenāt seen āLutescensā for sale in all the time Iāve lived here, or I would be growing it, too!) Iām not sure if āLuteaā has much in the way of male reproductive organs, but it finished blooming a little while ago, while āPurezzaā is still going.
Edit: now I see that Greenmantle has āLutescensā and wonder how many years Iāve deprived myself by not noticing. Maybe itās time to try killing another R. fedtschenkoana, as wellā¦
OMG a thatās IT!! Iāve been wondering what that scent was. Banksiae āLuteaā is right outside my door and I pass it multiple timesā¦
Always that āvegetable, but not greenā odour.
Iām glad to know Iām not the only one who notices it!
I canāt say that Iāve ever detected anything approaching a real violet scent in roses (Lady Banks or otherwise), which is a shame, because I love sweet violets.
Devoniensis I can smell walking up the path to my small garden 40 ft away. FYI: A single petalled climber from Paulās Lemon Pillar x Souvenir de Claudius Denoyel surprised me when it finally bloomed after a 4 year wait. It was the first rose to bloom this year. I had the longest cane suspended horizontally 7 ft high. I was on the ground weeding about ten feet away when a mild gust of wind blew a musky scent into my nose. It took a moment and then I made the connection with the blooms above. Itās a rather piercing fragrance at first but not unfavorable.
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When āGolden Centuryā is at peak bloom, I can smell it from 25 feet away. Itās a āmodern roseā scent, but it seems to travel distances quite effectively. Same for āDarlowās Enigmaā.
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In my garden Gertrude Jekyllās scent carries well
Yes I have experienced scent carrying from Gertrude Jekyll